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COVID Kindness

December 25, 2020 By Carol

  Dear Reader, Let me start by admitting that I am as lost as anyone after this “dumpster fire” of a year. I’ve often pictured Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in the tornado funnel watching fragments of what-used-to-be swirl about, or Anne Frank, huddled in the attic with her family, hiding to save their […]

Filed Under: Holiday, Letter Writing in the News, Special Occasions Tagged With: Anne Frank, charity and volunteering, Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz, Dove chocolates, dumpster fire, emilymcdowel.com, happiness, Inspire Kindness, inspirekindness.com, Katherine Good, kindness, Laurie Santos, letter carriers, letter writing, Molly B. Kansas, practicing kindness during the coronavirus, secret Santa, thank you notes, The Happiness Lab podcast, The Science of Well Being, vulnerable and numb, Yale University

“You are very important to me.”

May 18, 2020 By Carol

    The post office has been the focus of a lot of media attention lately. Much of it is prompted by the financial uncertainly that the USPS finds itself in during this coronavirus pandemic.  At present, there are more questions than answers. Still, postal workers continue to give “essential service” during this crisis. On […]

Filed Under: Letter Writing in the News, MAKES SENSE, Newsflash, Post Office News Tagged With: coronavirus pandemic, Emerson Weber, essential workers, Good Morning America, handwritten letters, letter carriers, Megan Brennan, NALC, NPR.org, Paul Barner, thank you notes, The Postal Record, the Postmaster General, USPS

An Extreme Sport

February 6, 2016 By Carol

Yesterday, I delivered the mail in a snowstorm. It was snowing heavily when I started out and it didn’t stop falling until mid afternoon. Those odd shaped postal trucks are terrible in the snow. They are rear wheel drive and they get stuck in even just a few inches of snow. I tried to dodge […]

Filed Under: Main Tagged With: challenges, extreme sport, extreme weather, global warming, headlamps, hottest Summer on record, letter carriers, mail delivery, Merry Mailman, moxy, snowstorm, sporting goods shops, USPS

Hooray for Saturday Delivery!!!

April 14, 2013 By Carol

April 14, 2013 This past Wednesday, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe had to eat crow,  his plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery fell through.  Public opinion and Congress told him: “NO!”

Filed Under: Newsflash Tagged With: letter carriers, Postmaster General Donahoe, Saturday mail delivery, The Merry Mailman

“Fire in the Belly”

March 24, 2013 By Carol

March 24, 2013 logo courtesy of deliveringforamerica.com Today was the National Day of Action for USPS postal employees.  NALC President Fredric Rolando called upon the letter carriers across the country to come out and protest Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s plan to end Saturday mail delivery. I joined approximately 200 people, mostly letter carriers, on the […]

Filed Under: Special Occasions Tagged With: "fire in the belly", Fredric Rolando, letter carriers, NALC, National Day of Action, New Haven Green, Patrick Donahoe, Richard Blumenthal, Rosa DeLauro, Saturday mail delivery

Postmaster General bullies the country

February 6, 2013 By Carol

Statement of NALC President Fredric Rolando on Postmaster General Pat Donahoe’s plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery Feb. 6, 2013 — Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s plan to end Saturday delivery is a disastrous idea that would have a profoundly negative effect on the Postal Service and on millions of customers. It would be particularly harmful to […]

Filed Under: Guest Author Tagged With: eliminating Saturday delivery, letter carriers, NALC, postal reform, Postmaster General Donahoe, President Fredric Rolando

“D-liver D-letter D-sooner D-better”

March 12, 2012 By Carol

March 12, 2012 Call for Entries… The 2012 Graceful Envelope Contest D-liver D-letter D-sooner D-better That familiar message — built around the letter D — has been taken to heart by the nation’s letter carriers, who D-liver 170 billion pieces of mail each year. With that letter in mind, your challenge this year is to […]

Filed Under: Newsflash Tagged With: any "D" word, creative interpretation, D-liver D-letter D-sooner D-better, Gini Ogle, Graceful Envelope Contest, letter carriers, National Association of Letter Carriers, Washington Calligraphers' Guild

“What’s up with the Post Office?”

September 23, 2011 By Carol

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ September 22, 2011 Over these past few years, I have listened with great dismay to the financial cries and moans of the US Postal Service. It took me a while to move beyond the fear and the cover story about lost revenue due to the advancement of technology and the popularity of email. Next came […]

Filed Under: Main Tagged With: "pay as you go", common sense, Deliver Magazine, email, financial cries, government, letter carriers, most trusted government, National Association of Letter Carriers, popular notions, post office closings, Postal Record, postal service, Postmaster General Donahoe, President Bush, profit, romance gone bad, taxpayers' bailout, technology, USPS

Postcard Rally #1

July 22, 2010 By Carol

July 22, 12010 About a year ago, in an effort to remind the public of the joys of sending postcards, a few of the letter carriers at the New Haven, Connecticut Post Office held a postcard rally.  The beautiful postcards of the Connecticut shoreline and attractions were donated by the New Haven Visitors Bureau. The […]

Filed Under: Just Talk Tagged With: Connecticut shoreline, Hawaiian shirts, letter carriers, New Haven, New Haven Visitors Bureau, postcards

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